Back at the end of July, I used Klout as a subject for my newsletter - http://www.dfc.com/news.php?news=92 Basically Klout's scoring seemed arbitrary and bit off kilter. Bravo for the update!

3:52 pm August 14, 2012

padde wrote:

ur blog is lyk christmas evryday. tnx

5:56 pm August 14, 2012

Manuel André wrote:

Their "algorithm" is flawed again until proven otherwise.

Geez, you can even buy Klout-score enhancing services!

Anything for the iSwallowAndFollowThisBS $$$ crowd.

10:31 pm August 14, 2012

Pete Ferling wrote:

"the new profile to a “social resume” that can provide a snapshot of someone’s influence"

Just one question: Define influence.

How does the system deal with "bone collectors" -those whom friend everyone and anyone with a pulse? What about the "digital stalkers" - those whom spend all day re-posting others works, jokes and phrases? Let's not forget the "mid-night journalist" - those whose baseless articles which manage to draw the ire of others to rack up the points in a "me first" social order?

How does their high counts and click rates matter when judging the quality of one's content? Ah. Maybe that's not the point. It's just your data on someone's else server for profit.

10:56 pm August 14, 2012

Ilya Zeldin wrote:

Agree with Debbie, bravo, it's a timely idea to extend a bridge towards people's real lives. Klout's effort is not enough, of course, it still generates an arbitrary score that encourages people to chase metrics vs. values. Klout does little to impact people at the personal level, its approach to data collection and metrics doesn't impact people's behavior in real life. That level of interest can only come from the very subtext that Klout can't reach - person's peer groups. Their feedback is totally missing from Klout's model.